Sichuan Monastery 20160730_172805

Sichuan Monastery

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July 31st 2016
Hi All, After a delicious lunch of mutton dumplings and a rest we visited the Sichuan Monastery which is huge. There are many young monks here studying at the various colleges within the monastery. Unlike the Gansu monastery in the morning where monks assembled to pray and we could view inside the temples here the temples were closed except one where a kind monk let us have a quick look round. L ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more